A couple of weeks ago, on October 14, NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully completed a flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus and came within about 1,142 miles (1,839 kilometers) of the orb's surface...
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Come Saturday, October 31 - that's right, just in time for Halloween - an asteroid of no mean size will buzz by our planet. NASA scientists are calling it the Great Pumpkin and say it measures ar...
Comet Lovejoy, more officially known as C/2014 Q2, was first observed by an Australian astronomer by the name of Terry Lovejoy back in November 2011. Then, earlier this year, scientists got to ...
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Earlier this week, NASA's New Horizons probe, now exploring the outskirts of our Solar System, beamed back a view of Kerberos, one of the moons orbiting dwarf planet Pluto. The image, released by...
It was in July 1969 that NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin became the first people ever to set foot on the Moon. It's been decades since this historic moment, and as it t...
NASA's Kepler space telescope was launched into Earth's orbit in March 2009. It's since been browsing our home galaxy, the Milky Way, for signs of planets similar to our own. Recently, the tele...
This Wednesday, a team of scientists at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany unveiled a new portrait of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. The researchers say they put together this view of our cosmi...
Based on data obtained with the help of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Kepler space observatory, a team of scientists found that an army's worth of Earth-like planets are yet to be born. Wh...
This coming October 31, just in time for Halloween, an asteroid dubbed 2015 TB145 will buzz by our planet. Rest assured though, it will not come trick-or-treating at our door. Rather, it will fly...
A couple of weeks ago, we got to feast our eyes on the Draconid meteor shower, which peaked on the night of October 8 to 9 and delivered about 20 meteors per hour. This Wednesday, October 21, w...
This Monday, October 19, US space agency NASA launched a brand new website it says it put together especially for our entertainment. The website shows images of Earth as seen from space, the sunl...
It was some time ago, in early July, that NASA's New Horizons probe got its first look at Pluto's heart, a light-colored region measuring about 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) across at its widest...
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Researchers at Brown University think a bizarre-looking mound documented on the surface of the Moon, near the orb's south pole, was created by never-before-seen volcanic activity that occurred on...
This past Wednesday, October 14, NASA's Cassini spacecraft, launched back in 1997 and orbiting the Saturn system since 2004, completed a flyby of Encedalus, the planet's sixth-largest moon. The...
As it turns out, dwarf planet Ceres is somewhat of a space hoarder. Or, as scientists like to call it, a cosmic dartboard. What this means is that, these days, much of the material on its surface...
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Scientists are so sure they'll be packing astronauts' bags and sending them to Mars in next to no time they're already talking routes and possible pit stops along the way. For instance, a recen...
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NASA's Kepler mission was launched to search for planets that could host life, intelligent or otherwise. Orbiting Earth since March 2007, the Kepler space telescope has so far helped pin down ove...
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Thanks to NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, we now know that liquid water every now and again forms and flows down slopes on the Red Planet. Interestingly, researchers at the University of Pe...
A new space image released by NASA just the other day brings into focus a gorgeous planetary nebula by the name of PK 329-02.2. The view, available after the jump, was obtained by the Hubble Spac...
Earlier this year, on July 14, NASA's New Horizons probe made space exploration history when, after traveling through space for nearly a decade, it at long last reached the edge of our Solar Syst...
Here we go again. Yet another asteroid is set to fly by our planet in just a few hours, and hordes of people are freaking out over this impending visit. Truth be told, the asteroid is quite a s...
Ever wonder what would happen if you were to suddenly change address and move, say, to outer space? Well, US space agency NASA is now hard at work trying to solve this riddle. So far, it's figu...
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New images of Pluto obtained by NASA's New Horizons probe during its historic flyby of the dwarf planet on July 14 reveal the orb's atmospheric hazes appear blue when illuminated by sunlight. A...
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Thanks to NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, we now know that liquid water every now and again forms and flows down slopes on the Red Planet. It's not much, but it's still something. For one thi...
As it turns out, we, Earth dwellers, are in for a treat this Thursday and Friday. The Draconid meteor shower is expected to peak this October 8 and 9, with NASA saying around 10 or maybe 20 meteo...
A new space image delivered by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and released by the agency this Wednesday brings into focus a massive sand dune resting on the surface of the Red Planet. All a...
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Earlier this week, a researcher by the name of Alan Stern gave a speech at the University of Alberta in Canada. He talked about NASA's mission to Pluto and teased that, this Thursday, the US spac...
New space images released by NASA this past Monday, October 5, bring into focus two of Pluto's smaller moons, Nix and Hydra. Together with the dwarf planet, the orbs were imaged by the New Hori...
US space agency NASA has just released a new set of images revealing landscapes on the Red Planet. The views, delivered by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, all show terrains featured in Ridley Sc...
NASA's Apollo program ran from 1961 until 1975. It was the US space agency's third human spaceflight program, and it included both manned and unmanned space missions. The program culminated with ...